Apocalyptic, blood-chilling and absolutely great

Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2005)

The first thing I thought after seeing this movie was: I hope they never make an American remake of this movie! Now it is a very sober and powerful movie, but I'm convinced that if some Hollywood director lays his hands on it, this movie will be full of gore, explosions and other things that would make this movie a lot worse. From the beginning until the end this movie was able to fascinate me, thanks to the excellent music, the interesting way of filming, the nice acting, the very good story,...
The movie starts with some environmental activists who have broken into a test lab where chimps are being used as guinea-pigs for all kinds of scientific experiments. What they don't know is that the apes have been infected by a virus that causes rage. They set one free and it immediately attacks one of it's liberators, contaminating her with the virus... 28 days later we meet Jim. Jim is a young bicycle courier in London who has been in a coma because of a car accident. When he wakes up from his coma, the hospital where he's being treated is empty, as is the entire city of London. At first he thinks there is no living soul left in the city, until he finds some people in an abandoned church... all infected by the virus (which he doesn't know yet of course). He gets out alive and meets some other non-infected people. Together they will try to survive and to find more uninfected people.
"28 Days Later..." is a very good movie, but I'm sure that it will not be loved by people who like zombie movies or other gory stuff. It has nothing to do with that and I'm very glad about that. I find zombie movies rather lame and stupid to be honest, but I definitely can't say the same about this movie. This one is absolutely great and underrated by many... It's full of suspense, it's blood-chilling, it has an apocalyptic feeling and is more than just another slasher/zombie/horror flick... I reward this movie with an 8.5/10, perhaps even a 9/10.